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Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of
KNOWLEDGE and LANGUAGE.

AAOWAoOS0 dAO Adu8uH&C.
One of the most extraordinary literary
enterprises of tho age is the work which
bears tho above title.
The specimen pages which the pub
Usher sends free to any applicant, show
the type which is used-a good clear
faced BREWER; also the f~orm-"Ideal' for
convenience, easy for the eye, handy to
hold. The volume will average about
GAO pages each, and there will probably
be about thirty of them-the "Manifold"
will not be announcement; when you
consult q Cyclopedia you are supposed to
know what "title'' you are looking for;
the lettering on the back ofeach volume
tells you at q glance what titles will be
wrong one-and the volumes are so
.'handy" you quicklyturn to the sought
for page.
There will be several thousand illus
tratlons-no"mere pictures" but every
thing hf Importance that will serve to
illustrate.
The MANIFOLD CYcLopED1A is to be
much mor than a encyclopedia of Uni
vorsal knowledge it will embody also
q dictionary of the English Language
including every word which has any
often have you consulted Appleton's or
Chambers's, or Johnson's Cyolopedia
and failed to find the title you were look
ing for-then consulted Webster's Una
bridged and were successful the word
belonged to the dictionary rather that to
the CYclopedia. Or you consulted Web
ster, and found little more than a mere
definition of the word-you must 80 to
tho Cyclopedia for details of knowledge.
going suppositions, you do not own
either a first-class Cyclopedia or a first
class Dictionary, or any one of the two,
because of their prohibitory cost, so YOU
consult your imagination" for lack OF a
few lines of print that would satisfy YOU!
In the MANIFOLD CYCLOpEDIA you will
find Il survey of all knowledge which is
illustrated by the English Language
and its cost is within your reach, only so
cents a volume for cloth binding, G5 cents
for half morocco
In this age of tho world no general cy-
clopedia or dictionary can be in any
proper sense ''original'-each new COM
pilation, if it has merit, is based upon the
knowledge found embodied III all its
predecessors. acknowledged" as set forth
in books cannot be monopolized by ''pat-
ent" or "copyright"-only the form of
embodiment can be thus covered. The
latest discoveries Tor imaginings) of tho
scientists, the latest "finds" (or fraudsl
~ AStoS gAO ldOoSC GuoOTloS
of the political economists-all + sub
ject to the ''sight drafts of the latest en-
cyclopedist. Alden's Manifold Cyclic
pedia undertakes to combine in the most
convenient and concise (and vet fulD
and economical form possible, the results
Of the scholarship of the world, upto the
time of its publication. Awaiting itself
of most of the laiors OF it's predecessors
who have accomplished tho best results,
fhn HforSf>1.l fNyo11~4l:n 1.....- -.--,
lar ssnly from Chambers than from any
other Of the family OF cyclopedias. and
more largely from Stormonth than from
any other of the family of dictionaries
the Chambers is an acknowledgements
for q cyclopedia, but it is adapted partic-
ularly to England rather thar to Amer
lea; Stormonth is the acknowledged peer
Of Webster, Worcester, the Imperial and
Murray as All authority, but without a
peer in the combined qualities of con-
ciseness, clearness and accuracy oflearn-
followed, but effort is carefully made to !
bring all matters to the generally accept
ed standard of tho most eminent Amer
lean, rather than foreign, scholarship.
Editorial talent second to none in
America, in experience and skill, is en-
gagged in the conduct of the work; the
publishers past eX perionce in cyclopedia
making Notable in Tho Library of Uni
versal Knowledge, now known-treble
in price-as the international Cyclopo-
dia) is good basis for the pledge he makes
to his patrons that The Manifold shall
be inferior to no other cyclopcdia in any
OF the important qualities of a popular
guide to knowledge. Specimen pages
free, or specimen volume may he or
dered and returned if not wanted. John
=. Alden, publisher, 1903 Pearl street, /
New York.